Nonprofit hopes to lessen upkeep costs for village

6:18 AM,
Apr. 9, 2013

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Written by

Hannah Sparling
Staff Writer

Growing up, Ted Crozier remembers River Park as a hotspot for fishing, driving go-carts or just hanging out.

Then, slowly, people stopped taking care of the park, and it turned into a rundown, overgrown mess, Crozier said. River Park since has made a turnaround, but Crozier wants the same attention to be given to all the village's parks. That's why he and others have formed Friends of the Dresden Parks, a nonprofit dedicated to maintaining and bettering the community's parks.

Dresden has about six parks, counting the swim and senior centers, he said. ...